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  • Valerie Page works as a registered health-information technician and runs a career-advice business.
  • Her career courses have helped people find work and get a collective $826,000 in salary increases.
  • Page shared her advice for career advancement, which includes the importance of job-hopping.

Valerie Page has always been her friends’ go-to person for career advice. 

As a registered health-information technician at a hospital on the West Coast, she built a stable, lucrative career and helped friends in healthcare find their own success. In her role, she manages health records and tracks patient information like treatments and results. But when the pandemic hit — and millions of Americans lost their jobs during the lockdowns — she realized she could help a wider network of people. 

“Seeing so many people losing their jobs, I had to do something,” Page told Insider. “I can’t just sit here with this skill set and not help these people find good work.”

Page’s business — HIM Blueprint for Success, an online community where she provides career advice for other health-information workers — includes free blog and a course on career advancement customers can subscribe to. She keeps track of people who use her resources and subsequently get raises, and since November 2020, she’s helped customers get a collective $826,000 in salary increases.

Page’s expertise comes from 17 years in the industry. After graduating from high school and becoming a mom, she needed to find a career that would provide a stable income and didn’t require another degree. She took a job at a home-healthcare agency in 2005 and, since then, has learned everything she can about health-information technology and career development. 

“It’s really my story and my strategies put together,” Page said of her course. “It’s everything that I’ve learned over the almost two decades of my career in healthcare.” 

Here are Page’s three pieces of advice for career advancement that she shares with her customers. 

Start a new position every couple of years 

Page said changing jobs every two to three years is one of the best ways to increase your salary. According to an April 2022 ZipRecruiter survey of 2,064 Americans, 64% of recent-hire respondents said their new position paid more. Of those workers, 48% said they received a raise of 11% or more. 

“Sometimes, people frown upon that because they label it as job-hopping,” Page previously told Insider. “What’s important is when you’re going after new opportunities that are in alignment with the professional brand you’re creating for yourself.” 

Improve your skills on the job 

Healthcare is an industry that is constantly changing with new technologies, regulations, and research to improve treatments for different conditions, Page said.

In her role, Page needs to keep her finger on the pulse of all of these changes. When she started in 2005, her hospital was undergoing a massive shift to change from on-paper records to digital systems. She said that now she works with technology she would’ve considered unthinkable at the beginning of her career.

Page encourages her clients to learn about the new technologies in healthcare so they’re constantly advancing their knowledge and skills. 

Find a niche 

Page said she was lucky to stumble upon a niche that provides room for advancement, stability, and a high salary.

One of the common mistakes she sees people make is searching for basic job titles like “medical coder” or “medical-office receptionist.” In her years working at hospitals, she’s collaborated with a wide variety of departments that most people wouldn’t know about, like information technology, healthcare finance, patient registration, and insurance. To find those roles, candidates should find a specialty that’s less common. 

“Sometimes it’s just as simple as not even knowing what jobs to look for,” she said. “There are so many different job titles that you’re not using and that’s minimizing the opportunity available to you.”



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